Adding Absence Calendar to an Open Calendar Group Containing Payroll Calendar

I've an open Calendar Group containing Payroll Calendar. Now I want to add Absence Calendar too, to that pay group. How do I do this? I tried to cancel/ suspend the calendar group so that I could add the absence calendar to this. But this doesn't happen.

Can you check after you cancel the process, try to run the next time. Are you able to see Identify enabled or it is coming as disabled and also see the open tickbox is appearing still or not. If it is not appearing then you should be. If after cancelling next run you are also able to see the open is ticked that means there is issue with locking. Check the log and login with that run parameter to cancel it correctly so that you can add..

The absence calendar belonged to an absence calendar group and the payroll calendar belonged to a payroll calendar group. The payroll calendar group when run, generated correct results. The absence calendar group did not. Upon reading, I realized, you cannot have two open calendar groups for the same period. (Am I right?)

Now, from the Absence calendar group, I cannot remove the calendar ID from the grid. At least one calendar ID needs to be there.

And there's no way I can delete the Absence Calendar Group too. Only when I delete the calendar ID from Absence Calendar Group will I be able to add the same calendar ID to the Payroll Calendar Group.

Yes you are correct. Two calendar group can't be open at same time.To get rid of this issue, create a dummy calendar using the same period and then add that dummy calendar into AM calendar Group by removing the one that you need for Payroll and then add the same calendar in payroll calendar group...

An employee has taken 1 day of unpaid leave. And so, the employee needs to be paid for 29 days instead of 30 days. The absence process correctly reflects 1 day of unpaid time for the Privilege Leave that the employee has taken. In the calculation tab of this Absence Take, I believe I need to add the earning elements. My earning elements are BASE SALARY, HRA, CONV which don't appear in the prompt. They are of AMOUNT type and not of PAYEE type.

I'm using all the delivered payroll elements BASE SALARY, HRA, etc which are amount. Type and I think that's why they are not appearing in the prompt table of Absence Take.

[ If they were, how would that work? Say for example I add an earning element called LOSS OF PAY in absence take (which is not of amount type surely) and there's 1 day of unpaid leave. Do I have to go to positive input page to do anything or when I run the absence process, the system takes care of it? The system doesn't because I had to go to positive input page to add certain unit s of unpaid time to LOSS OF PAY earning element. And when I run the payroll process, the system reflects this. I was then wondering what's the point of having the absence process at all. My sole purpose of having absence with payroll was to be paid lesser for 1 day of unpaid leave. I must be doing something wrong ]

Thanks for your invaluable inputs Luna. Despite so much time on PeopleBooks, it's finally you and couple of other guys who are enabling me to see the light of day.

Since you need to calculate the deduction based on the absence hours / days, hence the earning code should be of type as anything except Amount i.e rate X Unit, etc. This was you will be able to pass on the absence hours to UNIT. Once calculate the calendar, you may check the PI generated in the Results by Calendar Group.

Hope this helps!
Regards,

Luna,

You are right. That's the day formula tab.

I'm using all the delivered payroll elements BASE SALARY, HRA, etc which are amount. Type and I think that's why they are not appearing in the prompt table of Absence Take.

[ If they were, how would that work? Say for example I add an earning element called LOSS OF PAY in absence take (which is not of amount type surely) and there's 1 day of unpaid leave. Do I have to go to positive input page to do anything or when I run the absence process, the system takes care of it? The system doesn't because I had to go to positive input page to add certain unit s of unpaid time to LOSS OF PAY earning element. And when I run the payroll process, the system reflects this. I was then wondering what's the point of having the absence process at all. My sole purpose of having absence with payroll was to be paid lesser for 1 day of unpaid leave. I must be doing something wrong ]

Thanks for your invaluable inputs Luna. Despite so much time on PeopleBooks, it's finally you and couple of other guys who are enabling me to see the light of day.

As you mentioned you created you have LOSS of PAY element which is not of type Amount. Considering its Unit * rate type, you should include that in Day Formula tab, assign the Unit = SY (DAY COUNT PD) and Rate = SY (DAILY or HRLY Rate) depending upon your day count unit. Once configured, calculate the calendar and check the AB generated PI results in results by Calendar Group.
Hope this helps!

I understand when you talk of the earning element on the Absence Take page being of the type unit * rate. But my situation is this:

On the Compensation tab of Job Date Page of every employee, I assign the rate code INSAL and give it some value. On the payroll side this is BASE SALARY of type AMOUNT. All other components namely HRA, DA, etc are computed based on BASE SALARY. If BASE SALARY is 10000. This would be interpreted as 10000 for 1 month - 30 days or 31 days. And if 1 day is unpaid. Then the employee needs to be paid accordingly.

How should I translate this requirement into something doable. The payroll is all working fine except for the case of Leave Without Pay. And I cannot change the delivered elements.
Your inputs would be most welcome.
Thanks

Copyright 1998-2015 Ziff Davis, LLC (Toolbox.com). All rights reserved. All product names are trademarks of their respective companies. Toolbox.com is not
affiliated with or endorsed by any company listed at this site.